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Sunday, 11 May 2014

Lastingham Abbey

Lastingham Abbey
went through two incarnations. It was originally founded in 651-655
during the early days of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England, and was
ruled by St. Cedd and then his brother St. Chad. This abbey was ruined
by 1066, and a new abbey was founded on the same site in around 1078 by
monks from Whitby, but this second foundation was very short-lived
and the monks had moved to York by 1086.